Thank you for joining us for the We're Open 2018 Professional Development Workshop, sponsored by Lord Fairfax Community College, Lumen Learning, and the Achieving The Dream Foundation! We hope you enjoyed your experience and that you've found some useful information through the discussions and presentations you attended. In the spirit of being OPEN, we are sharing materials from the opening session, the breakout session, and the 'Panel of Pioneers'. Again, thank you for joining us!

Opening Session

OER: Open the future of education today

Brent Kendrick, Professor of English, Lord Fairfax Community College

Schedule

Breakout Sessions

From Access to Impact: Open as a Means, not an End.

Jamison Miller, Director of Teaching and Learning at Lumen Learning

For most, engaging with the adoption of open educational resources (OER) begins with lowering cost and improving access by offering alternatives to expensive publisher textbooks. To begin this session, I will review some of the research I have conducted in my doctoral program at the College of Willima and Mary on the cost of textbooks across colleges. Next, I will address the opportunities that OER facilitate beyond cost savings. Finally, I will share some of the research practices at Lumen Learning that deeply impact student learning and outcomes.

Getting Started with Open Educational Resources

Matthew DeCarlo, Ph.D. MSW, Asst. Professor of Social Work, Radford University

This presentation will review the differences between traditional educational resources and open educational resources (OER). I will explain the use of Creative Commons licenses, and the ability for educators to freely revise, remix, and redistribute OER materials. I will share my experience using OER in my social work courses, as well as the results of our OER pilot test at Radford University. These will be contextualized in the existing evidence base for OER and its impact on student learning. Finally, I will share resources for finding and working with OER in higher education.

The Next Step: Locating & Adopting OER

Kiri Dali, Digital Librarian, Knowledge to Work, Lord Fairfax Community College

Mary Hanlin, OER Librarian, Thomas Nelson Community College

Dive into the process of locating and adopting OER with two OER librarians. We'll talk about where to start an OER search and take a look at some OER options available. Then we'll walk through the process of collaborating, crafting, and then ultimately implementing your own OER class without reinventing the wheel.

Panel of pioneers

Sonia Balasch, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Eastern Mennonite University

• Experience developing upper-level OER Spanish text with colleagues at George Mason University.

Matthew decarlo, MSW, ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Radford University

• Experience developing OER text for Social Work research methods courses at Radford University.

Steve greenlaw

Professor of Economics, University of Mary Washington

• Experience working with OpenStax and Lumen to author OER text for Economics.

Additional Resources

Achieving the Dream Foundation

Adopting OER in the Classroom (Lumen Learning)

College Open Textbooks

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)

Español Abierto

Khan Academy

Lumen Learning

Merlot

OER Commons

OER Faculty Workshop (Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction)

Open Learning Initiative

OpenStax.org

Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota)

NOBA Project

Writing Commons

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